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This year has been one of fashion-forward weddings on a huge scale. In May, the Duchess of Sussex's wedding dress broke with convention as the bride chose a french fashion house - Givenchy, as beloved by Audrey Hepburn - to design a breathtakingly simple white gown with a bateau-neckline and a long veil, before switching to a Stella McCartney halterneck dress that nodded to Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's white silk slip wedding dress by Narciso Rodriguez.